Snow White may or may not flop, but Lilo & Stitch will make bank because kids will want to see the cute talking animal movie. The moment we saw him moving in the recent trailer, it was a done deal.

I wish that Disney had never bought Marvel, same with Star Wars too. Personally I still prefer the classic Marvel comics over the MCU.

Nope.

There are exceptions of course, I'm just naming one of the easiest routes to an outcome people want.

Going back to the main point: If an artist wants to have the most chance to make big bucks in comics, they have to accept that what they produce won't be "art" art, it will be entertainment first, and typically for a younger audience. That's how you can maybe get rich on comics (still hard though).

Even today, it's easy to tell from the sales of kid-friendly graphic novels like Dog Man (which you can find in Walmart), as well as the sales of shounen manga, that targeting kids to young adults is where the real money is. Both of them seem to appeal to boys and / or young men in particular.

Indeed. Personally, I think giving up that kids at the corner store / grocery store market was a mistake. I don't think I ever would've gotten into comics if there wasn't that rack of them at my grocery store. I think I only stepped into a direct market comics store once my entire childhood.

I understand that feeling all too well. Glad you had a good time though!

As for its visuals, those kinds of dull, depressing, washed-out, nigh-colorless environments were all the rage with Western developers circa 2005. It just happened to be an oil and water combo for the PMW series.

But FWIW Namco is making an actual edgy Pac-Man game now, so. Yeah.

I replayed PMW3 within the last year. There's not a whole lot of edginess to it a la Piglet, aside from a couple of attempts at risque humor. It's just a fairly bad game that gets boring and repetitive after a while.

Also weirdly, half of the game has no music, making it feel extra boring at times.

Never had either, but I assume it's like pineapple on pizza, a real love it or hate it kind of thing. (I love pineapple on pizza.)

I'm assuming this isn't real, but I wish it was.

The biggest hurdle to making money in American comics is that there isn't much of a mass market for them. The next biggest hurdle, for some, would be putting their artistic reservations aside to create products that have broad appeal for a relatively big target audience in that market.

Oh, I didn't even realize it was nominated. That's cool, PS5's one and only game deserved some recognition.